The Western Slope just asked for federal climate dollars to buy crucial water rights. Trump wants to roll back the funding

A $99 million plan to buy and permanently preserve some of the oldest water rights in Colorado is inching closer to securing all of its funding. But President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to...

Colorado hospitals missing mark on displaying discounted care program information, report finds

Program expands financial assistance for uninsured and low-income patients

Colorado still has a middling recycling rate, but residents are wasting less overall

A new report shows Colorado’s recycling rate is still less than half the national average, but residents produced slightly less municipal waste in 2023, offering a small bit of hope to recyc...

Colorado second in the nation in electric vehicle adoption

Affordable cars, generous incentives have state only behind California

How will Donald Trump’s presidency affect abortion rights in Colorado?

During the presidential campaign, Trump said he would veto a national abortion ban from Congress because the issue was sent back to the states when Roe v. Wade was overturned

How a second Trump administration might reverse drilling and energy restrictions on public lands in Colorado

Newly minted federal rules designed to protect greater sage grouse habitats by restricting drilling, mining and renewable energy projects on nearly 1,200 square miles of public land in Color...

Governor’s proposed Colorado budget cuts personnel funding to prepare for tighter spending

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday released his 2025-2026 state budget proposal, which prepared for tighter spending given decreasing inflation this year. Colorado’s budget growth is tied t...

Here’s how $7 billion in local school funding requests did across Colorado

Thirty-three of Colorado’s 178 districts, representing more than half of all Colorado students, went to voters this year asking for nearly $7 billion in tax measures. More than half of the m...

Democratic candidate Katie Stewart wins House District 59

Durango 9-R school board member ran against Ignacio Mayor Clark Craig in 2024 election

Pro-democracy group’s Colorado election hotline sees uptick

Common Cause Colorado fields voter questions and reports of threats

The last of Colorado’s dairy cows infected with bird flu have been released from quarantine

Earlier this summer, Colorado broke records for the highest number of reported cases in U.S. dairy herds to be infected with avian flu. It was also the first time Colorado’s dairy industry w...

What are Colorado’s voting machine BIOS passwords?

Passwords that make up part of the security system for computer equipment used in Colorado elections were published in a spreadsheet on the Secretary of State’s website. The posting of the “...